@petitmedusa.bsky.social
Philosopher from the slums. Latina. She/her. PhD candidate in Exp Phil. Data Scientist in the making. Interested in Global Politics, Social Psychology, Technology, AI Policy. Working in #Polarization, #MotivatedSocialCognition #Misinformation #SocialMedia
We need a dashboard to monitor the situation of situation monitoring dashboards.
Being an academic is spending 90 min looking for a source to back up a claim of something you know it's true because you were fucking there.
"I am alive( My mother, 1990)"
The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion.
This is the aftermath in one area
This paper has like 2k quotes. Academia is dead, and we are all in the purgatory.
Ah yes, how to forget when Chomsky and Ibn Rushd used to hang out to comment the Organon.
I saw an academic unironically suggest that instead of assessing students’ understanding and competence through their writing of essays, arguments etc., we can assess the “quality” of their prompts, and I feel us slipping further and further into dystopia.
The culture war(s)
Not sure if the plural here counts.
2) The reading wars (never quite understood them)
Thread of academic wars (for the sake of procrastination)
1) The rationality wars
The internet is full of fake and coordinated activity, and platforms often rely on SMS verification to prevent it. A hidden market selling SMS verifications lets bad actors bypass these protections, and a new website was created to track and study this problem for the first time.
The fact that a link to a seminar on moral virtues in a university has been banned as adult content by @safety.bsky.app is...ironic to say the least.
The epistemic environment is not good, folks. It's not good at all.
Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
Me when ready philosophers: "I should've been a cognitive scientist". Me reading cognitive scientist: "wtf is wrong with this ppl thanks christ I'm a philosopher"
Wake me up when rationality is normative again.
Food for thought: "Students are more capable than their anxiety tells them they are."
Unpopular opinion: just because the space of posibility and plausibility allows for your empirically insane argument, doesn't mean you have to make it.
Don't make it.
As my former Uni-clinic-based GP said to me once: "everyone on this campus is on sertraline, it's the only way this *gesture surroundings* works".
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
No, but a hotdog is.
If you draw the cognitive science hexagram, Jerry Fodor appears and calls you a relativist.
Post by academics in the US right now be like:
"OMGOMGOMG fascism is here OMGOMGOMG. Anyway I'm happy to announce that here is my new paper. :D "
🗃️From the archive: "Academic freedom had progressively increased from the 1940s to the 2010s, but it reversed and started to decline in the last decade both at the global level and in the 25 leading countries in science."
#AcademicFreedom
"When I was a kid, we didn't have smartphones. We had to come up with our own extremist views"
No longer credentialed at the Pentagon: NYT, Washington Post, CBS, NBC, ABC, Reuters, Fox
Now credentialed:
LindellTV, Tim Pool, Jack Posobiec, TPUSA, Gateway Pundit, The National Pulse, The Post Millennial
Tax the rich
Public health is under attack by a deluge of misinformation. We offer a consensus report from the American Psychological Association summarizing what we know & what interventions are effective in countering it. We provide 8 concrete recommendations. Open-access - awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...
I've come across content by quackademics* around topics of cognitive sovereignty and AI epistemology. Some of them talking about "noosphere" or "autopoiesis" like its a real thing at the same level of very real serious stuff like epistemic agency.
Philosophy grifting meets AI Bs.
Cognition